Interviewing Best Practices

What Are the Most Effective Interview Techniques?

Maintain eye contact with job candidates. Have a prepared list of questions to ask. Ensure positive body language the entire time. Arrive several minutes early. Have multiple copies of resumes for leads. Be ready to ask job seekers for their point of view on certain work styles and approaches. These are all good interview preparation…

5 Strategies for Screening Candidates Remotely

Hiring in today’s labor market is complex and requires the best strategies, processes, technology, and services to keep up with uncertainty that exists in finding enough quality talent. Recruiters can spend hours manually screening candidates just for one open requisition — job seekers they may never see or interact with — and still not find…

The Two Types of Candidate Screening Approaches

With top talent considered a scarce resource for enterprises today, many recruiters at large-scale organizations like yours are having to determining the best candidate screening approach to use: Traditionally, screening out — or eliminating candidates because they don’t meet specific criteria — has been the default practice of hiring teams and recruiters. But, with recent…

How Talent Teams Can Minimize Their Hiring Bias

A recent Harvard Business School study found that African American and Asian-American job applicants who mask their race on resumes get more job interviews. To help answer this, we asked hiring managers, recruiters, and business leaders for their insights. From training hiring managers and teams against recruitment bias to conducting blind skills challenges, there are several…

The Keys to Providing a Positive Candidate Experience

Ensuring your hiring team collectively provides a positive candidate experience to each and every individual you reach out to and speak with for open roles is one of the most critical areas of your company’s recruitment strategy today. In short, if it was evident before reading this guide, improving your candidate experience efforts regularly should…